Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
J. K. ROWLINGBooks are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
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Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
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The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
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The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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